Schmidt: ‘Important’ for Trump to Have Kasich, Jeb Stay in to Avoid 2 Person Race with Cruz

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BRZEZINSKI: "So those pockets, does that make it, Steve Schmidt, trying to get a ground game as effective as it was in Iowa for Ted Cruz, what are the challenge there is?"
SCHMIDT: "Look, South Carolina is a different state than Iowa. It’s a primary state, not a caucus state and it’s a much larger state by population about so Ted Cruz, as you saw in that piece, what he’s trying to do is make this a one on one race against Donald Trump, make it a choice. Donald Trump does well when this is a strong leader election against the establishment in the Republican party. What Ted Cruz is trying to do is make it an ideological election. Who’s the real conservative in the race? And Donald Trump’s path to the nomination gets interrupted if he winds up in a fight against Ted Cruz that’s an ideological one that’s a test of who’s the real conservative. So it’s really important for Donald Trump, for John Kasich, for Jeb Bush, for those other candidates to linger in the race to divide up the Republican base and to keep this from becoming a two-person race."